Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson publicly apologized for the arrest and flew to Philadelphia to meet privately with Nelson and Robinson.

Related: Starbucks CEO on arrests at Philadelphia store: ‘They didn’t deserve that’ – – The store employee who called police is no longer with the company.

Starbucks won praise for its decision last week to close its 8,000 company-owned stores in the United States for one afternoon on May 29 to provide racial bias training to about 175,000 workers.

Analysts expect Starbucks to report $5.9 billion in sales for its quarter from January to March, up from $5.3 billion at the same time last year.

The costs from protests and the May 29 training won’t show up until next quarter, but analysts will probably grill Starbucks on how much they expect to lose in sales from the closure and whether Starbucks’ reputation has taken a hit from the national uproar.

Last year, when bitcoin prices rose from their 2017 starting value of just under $1,000 to over $19,000 by mid-December, market chatter was that bitcoin was usurping gold’s role as a store of value and alternative to fiat currencies.

Some say maybe – – – – Pete Thomas, senior vice president of Zaner Precious Metals, a physical markets broker, said during last year’s bitcoin price run-up, some of his regular customers who buy gold coins or bars on a monthly basis told him they were opting to buy bitcoin…

He also heard anecdotally from other precious metals coin brokers that they were seeing bitcoin syphoning demand from gold.